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Alex. She/her. Gay. Very gay!! Can't seem to stop fangirling over badass women. I have a side blog where I mainly obsess over WOW ladies and games in general - www.tumblr.com/blog/sylvanasgayrunner

[tumbler-polls]

Which European region do you reside in?

Western Europe 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇱🇺 🇳🇱

Iberian Peninsula 🇪🇸 🇵🇹

British Isles 🇬🇧 🇮🇪

Northern Europe 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇮🇸

Central Europe 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 🇵🇱 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 🇭🇺

Southern Europe 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇲🇹 🇨🇾

Balkan Peninsula 🇭🇷 🇸🇮 🇧🇦 🇷🇸 🇲🇪 🇲🇰 🇦🇱 🇧🇬 🇷🇴

Eastern Europe 🇺🇦 🇧🇾 🇲🇩 🇷🇺

Baltic States 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹

Benelux 🇧🇪 🇳🇱 🇱🇺

Alpine Region 🇨🇭 🇦🇹 🇸🇮

Other / I'm not in Europe

Voting ended onNov 10, 2023

This is the second part of the World Census. The first, more general part, is here.

Please, tag / comment your country and reblog for a bigger sample size! 🌍

[mystym]

Most important thing I have learned as a musician; NEVER underestimate how important sleep is to learning new things.

I CANNOT tell you how many times I have torn myself away from struggling through a difficult passage in a piece after I've worn myself out in order to let it rest until after I sleep, and Lo And Behold, it's a million times better the next day.

Sleep (especially good sleep- get good sleep please) solidifies things you learned over the course of a day, especially when it comes to things involving physical motion. If you're Really Struggling with learning something, get through a rough session of learning and go to bed. You'll understand it better the next day. It's hard to do sometimes because when you're in the groove you want to get it in one go but believe me when I say it's just not going to happen, especially if you're getting frustrated.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[mamajosrefuge]

The EU is doing a big survey for LGBTQ people who live in the EU about how it is for them right now. That's the kind of survey that's used for official reports and for laws so it's super important that it has as many people taking it as possible. You can take it in every EU language. (You can change the language in the top right corner) Share it with your friends!

https://www.lgbtiqsurvey.eu/lgbtiq

[gif87a-com]

[doujinshi]

oh my fucking god

[princessnijireiki]

#can… can a normal video ever exist on the innanets??? [x]

[note-a-bear]

THIS IS THE ONLY MEME I’VE EVER TRULY LOVED

[uncookedtrashmonster]

omg this is perfection

[internetsnorkeling]

[reasonsforhope]

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

[geocaprican]

[gortklatuubaradanekto]

How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.

[nerdfaceangst]

Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.

I am so, so proud of him holy shit.

[fthgurdy]

^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.

And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!

Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”

And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.

There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.

Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Lol whoops THIS is the website

[modern-politics111]

‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

[ms-cellanies]

CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES

From the article:  

Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.

[headspace-hotel]

OUTSTANDING MOVE

[luntfontanne]

jesus fucking christ

[luntfontanne]

"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike

Groceries for Writers — Humanitas

THE SNACKLIST: Support Entertainment Workers!

I just contributed to THE SNACKLIST to support Entertainment Workers!

[darkwood-sleddog]

Because @staff is too cowardly…

What type of dashboard experience do you prefer?

An algorithm based feed where I get “the best of tumblr”.

Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow.

This doesn’t affect me personally.

Voting ended onJul 11, 2023

[vintageandroid]

@staff please pay attention to the results here.

[plannedparenthood]

We mourn. We remember.  We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.

[everythingfox]

“My time has come”

[el-lugar-bueno]

Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76

That's her, btw

She's an icon and also very talented. We Stan.

[knitmeapony]

Diversity win! Icon for indecision comes out as bisexual!

[vaspider]

Now we know what she was trying to figure out.

[blinday]

You get the one in a lifetime chance to add the word "Fuck" to any LOTR moment, which one of the following is your choice?

Fuck your secrets then

A fucking Elf

I have no fucking memory of this place

One does not simply walk to fucking Mordor

They have a fucking cave Troll

AND MY FUCKING AXE

This forest is old as fuck

Fuck it

My fucking precious

Voting ended onMay 11, 2023

[cannotunsee]

May the 4th be with You: A Poem for Star Wars Day

[dduane]

Netflix Condemns WGA Strike For Putting Future Show Cancellations Behind Schedule

LOS ANGELES—Emphasizing the negative effects the recent union action would have on the company, Netflix officials condemned the Writers Guil

“The unnecessary demands of the WGA are completely ruining the process of having writers slave over a show for countless weeks only to have their work disappear completely from the streaming platform.”

😏

[paleoart]

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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